Assistant Professor @SetonHall. Former: @AnnenbergPenn @MIC_Center. Platforms, policy, political economy.
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David Elliot Berman retweeted
woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
David Elliot Berman retweeted
from the top rope
as promised I solved the discourse
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David Elliot Berman retweeted
first time germany has been properly punished by an international body for anything
David Elliot Berman retweeted
Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and narrowing job prospects, AI has become the new avatar of American capitalism.
David Elliot Berman retweeted
I'm going to keep saying it until people get it.
AI *is* mass surveillance.
All AI. Not some. All. By design and by default.
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David Elliot Berman retweeted
“At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading”—but that’s because not enough teachers are asking them to, Walt Hunter writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
David Elliot Berman retweeted
Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language
Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT
Model collapse, except for humans arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754v1
David Elliot Berman retweeted
Most thoughtful take I’ve seen on sports betting, from the great @liz_franczak
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David Elliot Berman retweeted
The earnest term paper written in the fevered haze of a caffeine and nicotine fueled all-nighter — of greater worth to me than the entire cumulative output of generative AI.
David Elliot Berman retweeted
The only good take on Olivia Nuzzi
“We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers.”
mediaite.com/opinion/the-oli…
David Elliot Berman retweeted
The thing about AI I want to press people on is why capital feels compelled to invest in AI *in particular* and to the exclusion of everything else.
David Elliot Berman retweeted
It’s a loss for humanity as a whole that we are losing cultural critics with keen eyes and sharp wits, then getting nothing in return but AI slop and influencers who ask Pedro Pascal what it’s like to be the Internet’s daddy
David Elliot Berman retweeted
Every day an ostensibly serious person describes how they use ChatGPT—to write pretty passages, to rattle off fun hallucinated historical slop to them in the car—and it really is as though they’ve voluntarily hung a big, public sign around their neck that says: “I’m illiterate.”
David Elliot Berman retweeted
Excited to announce our Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute's $1.2M award to partner with the City of Philadelphia to evaluate and support their NTIA-funded initiative to create a more digitally empowered city. @PSUBellisario @_DavidBerman
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David Elliot Berman retweeted
After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized.
Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff
404media.co/where-facebooks-…
David Elliot Berman retweeted
We can't joke or snark our way out of what's happening now or what comes next. Organize your friends, coworkers, neighbors — look out for them. Take care of one another.
Less time online. More time building and cultivating communities of care.
David Elliot Berman retweeted
Come work with us at the MIC Center! We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher who focuses on the political economy of broadband, digital equity, and the future of local media infrastructures. Please spread the good word! asc.upenn.edu/research/cente…